Brettimaeus

I made this mashup last year, on October 10th 2024, after my friend talked about using the Angry Birds theme in Fuser. I realized it sounded like Halloween Skeleton music and was syncopated similarly to Smooth Criminal. I think they're both in the Dorian mode too!

I then hastily threw together a video for Bluesky on Halloween, which I've remastered for YouTube here (since bsky only allowed >60sec videos at the time).

Spoilers for all of Doctor Who (2005-2025).

Happy 20 years to the Doctor Who revival. Sorry to all that we've lost along the way -- including Ncuti.

Originally created: 20 May 2020

On 8 May 2020, I bought a Square Enix bundle on Steam which had the first three Just Cause games in it. I’d long ago played a ton of Just Cause 2 on the PS3 while listening to podcasts back in 2016, so I jumped at the opportunity to play it again on PC. I spent the entirety of 19 May playing it, and used Nvidia shadowplay to save clips as I went.

The next day, for some reason, I felt like making a video out of them, so I spent the entire day editing! It’s not the first time I’ve made a dunkey-ish gameplay video on a whim like this, but I usually tend to sit on them for a long time because I feel weird about posting them (since video games are already so disproportionately represented on youtube). But this time, I thought I ought not think about it too hard, and just toss it out there as quickly as possible.

Originally created: 24 Apr 2020

My lovely girlfriend, Cupid, was talking about songs she listened to growing up, and showed me one. I commented that the video had a threatening aura, and she replied that it would be easy to cut it so that it looked like the singer was just killing people. She was absolutely right.

Created: 26 Aug 2019

So... I was listening to the podcast ‘Story Break’ while playing Minecraft. And one of the hosts, Will Campos, said  "Can we please get a Kiki's Delivery Service AMV set to Saliva's Click Click Boom... called 'Click Click Broom?'"

I was inspired, for the first time in awhile! Believe me, it’s not lost on me that this is the first video I have uploaded to my YouTube channel in [checks notes] 1 years, 6 months and 13 days.

In fact, if it’s not obvious... I made this video in less than a day and uploaded it as soon as it was done. That was partially so that I could get it to the Story Break crew ASAP, and -- though it probably could have been better if I’d given it some more thought -- partially because it was imperative to me that I exorcise the creative demon that had been possessing me as vigorously and abruptly as possible.

The truth is that I have [checks notes] about 12 videos of varying lengths that I have neglected to upload to my YouTube channel. I doubt I will upload all of them! Some of them just wouldn’t fit the atmosphere very well. But that’s why this video was so satisfying, actually. It was such a classic Brettimaeus request: An AMV? A highly ironic mismatch of tones? A piece of art that I genuinely love and am always happy to feature in my work? I was totally in my element here.

Interesting notes:

I’d never heard the song before, so I looked it up on Genius and went through the song line by line to find relevant parts from the movie